Comments | strange_complex: What you can do about Peter Cruddas and his ilk

strange_complex

What you can do about Peter Cruddas and his ilk

Mar 25, 2012 10:33

So I assume we all know by now that Tory party co-treasurer Peter Cruddas has been caught out by the Sunday Times offering businesses direct personal access to David Cameron for a minimum donation of £100,000. This BBC news article has the video if you haven't seen it. And just to be absolutely clear that this is not simply a matter of a few hand- ( Read more... )

electoral reform, politics

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softfruit March 25 2012, 14:27:36 UTC

In fairness, feeding in an idea to the policy committee doesn't guarantee it gets actioned into government policy. I get all sorts of ideas from people about how the activist projects I do should change, but I only take up a few of them.

And as some internet wags have pointed out, similar amounts of money from donors under the previous government tended to get linked to peerages, allowing ongoing influence for the rest of your life (or until Clegg gets the second chamber reforms through, whichever is sooner).

Not that it doesn't smell as fishy as a %fishyanalogy%...